Sunday, June 3, 2012

Lighthouse Trails Research: NOTE: The following debate took place in May, between fellow defender of the faith, Cecil Andrews of Take Heed Ministries in Northern Ireland and Catholic priest, Keith McMillian. The debate is hosted by another contender, Doug Harris of ReachOut Trust in the UK.

...Most Vatican sources agree that an internal campaign involving Machiavellian manipulation and maneuverings—what Phillip Pullella for Reuters called “a sort of ‘mutiny of the monsignors’” [9]—is playing out behind the scenes against the pope’s right-hand man, Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. The same sources say “the rebels have the tacit backing of a former secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, an influential power-broker in his own right and a veteran diplomat who served under the late Pope John Paul II for 15 years.” [10] If Sodano was behind the pope’s butler with a campaign to undermine papal possibilities for Bertone, suspicions deepen that he may have aspirations himself for the conclave to elect Benedict’s successor, if he isn’t arrested by Vatican magistrates in the meantime. And was it just coincidence that the Vatican Bank ousted its president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi this past Thursday as well?